need, let us go from reality to reality seeking food for the incomprehensible flame, and thus, certain of having fulfilled our organic duty, preparing ourselves for whatever befall.  Let us nourish this flame on our feelings and passions, on all that we see and think, that we hear and touch, on its own essence, which is the idea it derives from the discoveries, experience and observation that result from its every movement.  A time then will come when all things will turn so naturally to good in a spirit that has given itself to the loyal desire of this simple human duty, that the very suspicion of the possible aimlessness of its exhausting effort will only render the duty the clearer, will only add more purity, power, disinterestedness, and freedom to the ardour wherewith it still seeks.

Appendix

TO give a complete bibliography of the bee were outside the scope of this book; we shall be satisfied, therefore, merely to indicate the more interesting works:—­

1.  The Historical Development of Apiarian Science: 

(a) The ancient writers:  Aristotle, “History of Animals “(Trans.  Bart.  St. Hilaire); T. Varro, “De Agricultura,” L. III. xvi.; Pliny, “Hist.  Nat.,” L. xi.; Columella, “De Re Rustica; “Palladius, “De Re Rustica,” L. I. xxxvii., etc.

(b) The moderns:  Swammerdam, “Biblia Naturae,” 1737; Maraldi, “Observations sur les Abeilles,” 1712; Reaumur, “Memoires pour servir a l’Histoire des Insectes,” 1740; Ch.  Bonnet, “OEuvres d’Histoire Naturelle,” 1779-1783; A. G. Schirach, “Physikalische Untersuchung der bisher unbekannten aber nachher entdeckten Erzeugung der Bienen-mutter,” 1767; J. Hunter, “On Bees” (Philosophical Transactions, 1732); J. A. Janscha, “Hinterlassene Vollstandige Lehre von der Bienenzucht,” 1773; Francois Huber, “Nouvelles Observations sur les Abeilles,” 1794, etc.

2.  Practical Apiculture: 

Dzierzon, “Theorie und Praxis des neuen Bienenfreundes; “Langstroth, “The Honeybee “(translated into French by Ch.  Dadant:  “L’Abeille et la Ruche,” which corrects and completes the original); Georges de Layens and Bonnier, “Cours Complet d’Apiculture; “Frank Cheshire, “Bees and Bee-keeping” (vol. ii.—­Practical); Dr. E. Bevan, “The Honey-bee;” T. W. Cowan, “The British Bee-keeper’s Guidebook;” A. Root, “The A B C of Bee-Culture;” Henry Alien, “The Bee-keeper’s Handy-book;” L’Abbe Collin, “Guide du Proprietaire des Abeilles; “Ch.  Dadant, “Petit Cours d’Apiculture Pratique; “Ed. Bertrand, “Conduite du Rucher; “Weber, “Manuel pratique d’Apiulture;” Hamet, “Cours Complet d’Api-culture; “De Bauvoys, “Guide de l’Apiculteur;” Pollmann, “Die Biene und ihre Zucht; “Jeker, Kramer, and Theiler, “Der Schweizerische Bienenvater; “S.  Simmins, “A Modern Bee Farm;” F. W. Vogel, “Die Honigbiene und die Vermehrung der Bienvolker; “Baron A. Von Berlepsch, “Die Biene und ihre Frucht,” etc.

3.  General Monographs: